7 Ways To Get More Traffic To Your Site

Whether you’re running a website for fun or trying to earn money on the internet by blogging, you no doubt want more traffic – I mean, who wouldn’t like their site to be more popular right?
So this post is about exactly that. My own personal cheat sheet for when I want to boost my traffic, build my authority or just generally get my message infront of new readers.

1 – Guest Posting:

 

 

Like what I’m doing now! I don’t really guest post for SEO reasons, there are better ways to do that. For me; guest posting is an opportunity to “meet” new readers. It’s great to get your face out, interact with other bloggers and just generally be social. You get a flurry of new readers, make connections and probably some new ideas for your own site.

2 – Commenting:

 

 

Ok, so again, you get some nice links (although they are often nofollow anyway); but the best reason to comment is branding. If you are a regular in the scene you will probably see the same faces over and over. These are the guys who become the really trusted players in a niche and really get to be well known – if you have a known brand people will listen to what you have to say and they will be far more likely to link to you too.

3 – SEO:

 

 

It’s all very well building an authoritative website, or blog, but you can only rank in Google if you have some keywords to rank for. So take some time to get some appropriate keywords which get good traffic and make sure your posts / pages actually target them.

4 – Press Releases:

 

 

You know what these are don’t you? Write a press release that is of interest to people who don’t know you or your site. Make it funny, exciting or even give something away.

5 – Do Something Wacky:

 

 

You heard right; I don’t mind what it is, just make sure it stands out and appeals to people in your niche. Use some of the previous suggestions to ensure that people actually notice whatever you are doing, otherwise your efforts might be wasted.

6 – Make Something Useful:

 

 

A more sensible alternative to the above; If you have some technical skill or a good idea and a good developer you could have a website tool created that relates to your niche. If it is helpful then people will tell other people about it.

7 – Advertise:

 

 

Ok, so probably not something most of you will interested in, but advertising can be profitable even for affiliate marketers and adsense websites if you do it really carefully. This is a big topic and one worth discussing further, but that’s for another post…